PC Class Notes for 1/12/10

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I want to Justify my text in Word XP
1. Type out your document/paragraph
2. Click once or highlight/select the paragraphs you want to justify
3. Go to the format menu above
4. Choose paragraph
5. Beside Alignment choose "justify"
6. Click OK

If justify does not work, make sure that the sentences that may appear like a paragraph are continuous and are not separated by paragraph marks
1. Turn on/off invisible formatting by click the backwards P or paragraph mark on top
2. If you see the paragraph mark at the end of every line you thought was part of a paragraph, remove them to connect the sentences

Use Footers and Headers to add dynamic information that changes as the document changes. Like the date, time, page number, number of pages.
1. Click the view menu
2. Choose Header and footer
3. click above for the header or below for the footer on the document and press tab if you need to jump to the middle or far right
4. click on the corresponding icon on the toolbar that appears to choose the information you want to include on your document
5. click close or double click in the main part of the document to be returned to your regular workspace

Change my Internet homepage
 (internet explorer)
1.Open the internet
2. Go to the page you want as your homepage
3. Click the tools menu
4. choose internet options
5. click use current to set the homepage to the page that is being displayed
6. click OK to confirm and close the window

Insert a picture into Word XP
1. Click the insert menu
2. choose picture--->from file
(or you can copy and paste a photo/image from the internet)

Crop a picture in Word XP
1. Click once on the picture
2. Look for the picture toolbar
3. Click on the crop tool that looks like 2 corners overlapping
4. your mouse arrow will show the symbol for the crop tool to indicate that it is selected
5. click on one of the black squares on the edge of the picture to crop off a side
6. repeat as needed to other sides or corners
7. when you are done, press ESC on the keyboard to stop cropping

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